Tutor Recruitment Officer (SEND & Alternative Provision)
📍 Location: Roper Road, Canterbury
🕒 Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm (1-hour lunch)
📅 Contract: Full-time (52 weeks) with potential for Part Time consideration
💷 Pay: £30 - £32,000 (subject to experience)
Join Tuition Extra-Removing Barriers to Learning
At Tuition Extra, in Canterbury, we specialise in high-quality, tailored tuition with a strong focus on SEND. Our mission is to create an inclusive and inspiring learning environment that empowers students to achieve their full potential.
Our work spans a flexible tuition service, alongside our specialist provisions Haven Nook and Maypole Farm, allowing us to meet learners wherever they are in their educational journey. We work in close partnership with families and carers, schools, and local authorities to provide nurturing, inclusive, and outcomes-focused education that builds confidence, reduces barriers, and helps students re-engage with learning. Our approach is practical, compassionate, and firmly rooted in the belief that education works best when it adapts to the individual.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and colleagues.
About the Role
Tuition Extra is seeking an experienced and detail focused Tutor Recruitment Officer to lead the end-to-end recruitment of high-quality tutors working with children and young people with SEND and those accessing alternative provision.
This is a hands-on role responsible for delivering high volume tutor recruitment in a safeguarding critical environment. The postholder will ensure recruitment activity meets operational demand while maintaining rigorous safer recruitment standards.
The Tutor Recruitment Officer will work very closely with the HR team, as well as the Referrals and Engagement Officer, safeguarding and senior colleagues, to ensure recruitment, compliance and onboarding processes are aligned, robust and consistently applied.
Key Responsibilities
Recruitment Planning & Coordination
- Plan and deliver recruitment activity in response to current and forecasted tutor demand.
- Build and maintain sustainable tutor pipelines to support urgent and planned referrals.
- Work closely with the HR team to ensure recruitment activity aligns with workforce planning, contracts and onboarding requirements.
- Ensure recruitment processes reflect Tuition Extra’s values, safeguarding culture and quality expectations.
Tutor Attraction & Sourcing
- Develop attraction strategy which aligns with Employee Value Proposition. Lead tutor attraction activity through job boards, referrals, partnerships and targeted campaigns.
- Develop clear and accurate recruitment messaging in collaboration with HR and the marketing team, ensuring consistency with employment terms and organisational standards.
- Proactively source tutors to reduce reliance on reactive recruitment.
Selection & Assessment
- Manage the full tutor selection process, ensuring decisions are robust, fair and SEND-appropriate.
- Conduct interviews and assessments to test suitability for working with vulnerable learners.
- Work in partnership with HR to ensure selection decisions meet safer recruitment and employment requirements.
- Ensure safeguarding awareness, professional boundaries and reliability are consistently assessed.
Recruitment Delivery & Onboarding
- Manage end-to-end recruitment from application through to handover for onboarding.
- Work closely with HR to ensure smooth transition from recruitment to contract issue, compliance checks and readiness to work.
- Monitor recruitment progress and address delays or drop-off points collaboratively with HR.
- Ensure tutors are appropriately matched to learner needs, location and availability.
Compliance, Safeguarding & Risk Management
- Ensure all recruitment activity complies with Tuition Extra’s safer recruitment policies and procedures.
- Work closely with the HR team to ensure compliance checks are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
- Maintain accurate, audit-ready recruitment records and documentation, specifically Single Central Register.
- Escalate concerns or risks promptly through HR and safeguarding channels.
Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Track recruitment activity, pipeline health and time-to-fill data.
- Share accurate and timely recruitment updates with senior colleagues.
- Work collaboratively with HR to review and improve attraction, recruitment and onboarding processes to ensure it aligns with HR and Business principles.
Internal Communication & Collaboration
- Work closely referrals and operations colleagues to align recruitment priorities and timelines.
- Communicate clearly and professionally regarding recruitment progress, constraints and risks.
- Contribute to service planning by providing realistic insight into recruitment capacity and workforce availability.
Skills, Experience & Attributes
Essential
- Proven recruitment experience (in-house or agency), with experience managing high-volume recruitment.
- Experience delivering full-cycle recruitment, including attraction, selection and handover to onboarding.
- Strong understanding of safer recruitment and safeguarding within education, SEND, care or regulated environments.
- Ability to work effectively in close partnership with HR colleagues.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and urgent demand without compromising quality.
- Clear, professional communication skills and sound judgement.
Desirable
- Experience recruiting tutors, teachers or SEND professionals.
- Familiarity with alternative provision or local authority commissioned services.
- Experience working within HR-led recruitment and compliance frameworks.
- Confidence using recruitment, HR and compliance systems.
Safeguarding
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. This role is subject to enhanced DBS checks and ongoing safeguarding training.